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Professors defend Charlie Kirk assassination on Bluesky
Campus Reform ^ | September 12, 2025 | Claire Harrington

Posted on 09/16/2025 12:57:20 PM PDT by Red Badger

In response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, various university faculty and staff have expressed views on Bluesky that appear to support his killing.

In response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, various university faculty and staff have expressed views on Bluesky that appear to support his killing.

“Charlie Kirk was a vicious, hateful fascist and white supremacist,” wrote Martin Pfeiffer, a “QUEER” Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Mexico. “To say anything else is a lie and, quite frankly, fascist collaboration.”

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English professor Abigail Higgs of Morgan State University wrote: “I think what disturbs me most about the video is seeing how much blood he instantly lost. ... But no, I do not, nor would I ever, mourn the actual ghoul himself.”

In another post, she added, “He died like he lived: grotesquely.”

Branden McEuen, a history lecturer at Wayne State University, encouraged others to “quit reading the works of people who think Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way, or that he was a decent human being,” saying that “[Kirk] wasn’t either of those things.”

Following Kirk’s passing, President Trump described the Turning Point USA founder as “loved and admired by ALL, especially me.” However, a self-described former University of California, Irvine lecturer, Larry Tenney, retorted on Bluesky: “Hey Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk was NOT loved by all.”

Tenney continued, “WE KNOW WHO CHARLIE KIRK WAS. He built a fortune being an a*****e, saying outrageous s**t & attacking a majority of Americans.” Tenney also reposted a message that said “F**k off America,” “F**k off trump,” and “F**k all you mother f*****s, idgaf about any of you.”

Syracuse University political science assistant professor Jenn M. Jackson referenced Kirk’s support of Second Amendment rights, writing: “Charlie Kirk said it was worth it to have ‘a few’ gun deaths each year so that we can have the Second Amendment. He called those deaths ‘prudent’ and a ‘rational deal.’ Him dying this way seems both ironic and in line with his own politics.”

Fordham School of Law professor John Pfaff criticized Kirk’s Professor Watchlist, which works to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

The professor alleged that the list is a “threat to academic freedom.”

“Just a reminder: Kirk’s organization established the Professor Watchlist, which even the NYT framed as a threat to academic freedom,” Pfaff wrote.

“I don’t get why ppl keep describing him as [sic] a good-faith debater,” he continued. “One can say ‘Kirk should not have been murdered’ (which is true!) without engaging in hagiography.”

By Thursday, at least two university professors had been fired over comments made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk—one from the University of Mississippi and another from Middle Tennessee State University.


TOPICS: Education; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: academia; bluesky; charliekirk; domesticenemies; domesticterrorism; domesticterrorists; education; faculty; internet; professorwatch; socialmedia; usu; utahstate; utahstateuniversity; violence

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1 posted on 09/16/2025 12:57:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Just another reason to send your children to trade schools instead of the university.


2 posted on 09/16/2025 12:59:35 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

Charlie a ghoul, huh? I couldn’t watch the video of the assassination but these so called professors could?? Who’s the ghoul?


3 posted on 09/16/2025 1:00:06 PM PDT by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!cper)
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To: Red Badger

BTTT


4 posted on 09/16/2025 1:02:24 PM PDT by nopardons ( )
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To: Red Badger

This is a mind control technique.

People in trustworthy (sic) positions propagate talking points targeting those who might be afraid to support the same talking points.

Since they trust these people, the fearful then become more bold.


5 posted on 09/16/2025 1:02:32 PM PDT by reasonisfaith
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To: Red Badger

Professors celebrate shooting on college campus


6 posted on 09/16/2025 1:03:29 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Red Badger

This is like Bud Lite doubling down on beer cans featuring pictures of trans “women.” When I was in college, I felt that the non-engineering professors were too stupid to survive in any other environment. I’ve seen nothing to change that opinion.


7 posted on 09/16/2025 1:05:26 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: Red Badger
Image from Gyazo
8 posted on 09/16/2025 1:05:39 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Red Badger

They’ve made it perfectly clear that when they call you a Nazi they’re inciting violence against you, up to and including murder. That is not protected speech and there must be legal consequences.


9 posted on 09/16/2025 1:07:46 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Red Badger

This is abuse of power. The students have to sit there and take this mindless hate speech. IF they talk back they will be punished with bad grades.

This isn’t a “free speech” issues. They can have their mindless hate filled opinions, but their employers needs to separate themselves from these people’s advocation for pollical violence.

If they don’t, the organizations are lending their reputation as validation to their hate speech.


10 posted on 09/16/2025 1:11:31 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
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To: Red Badger

My sakes, has Bluesky gone just ever so pious, first they are cheerleaders for getting out the “real feelings”, then they pretend to temper their open and broad encouragements for certain demographics to “express” themselves.

A pox be upon them.


11 posted on 09/16/2025 1:14:03 PM PDT by alloysteel (You gotta accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch onto the affirmative....)
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Did I just hear a loud knocking on his front door? (FBI)


12 posted on 09/16/2025 1:15:45 PM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Leftists worst nightmare is a conservative trans person.


13 posted on 09/16/2025 1:17:03 PM PDT by pburgh01
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To: Red Badger
Pictures, 1000 words, ...


14 posted on 09/16/2025 1:18:46 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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violetvixenisme—deep thinker that one.

These are professors? That’s some quality thinking up there—LOL

They think they’re open, broad minded and brilliant. psssh

Blind in one eye and can’t see out the other.

I can’t do much more than laugh at the pathetic closed-minded fools—they forget (or never learned) what learning and education truly means.


15 posted on 09/16/2025 1:22:59 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: Red Badger

As I’VE Posted ... Universities have morphed from institutes of higher learning into cesspools of disinformation and this professor is probably one of the turds floating around in one of those cesspools.


16 posted on 09/16/2025 1:24:37 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

They completely don’t understand what political assassination does to a society. It opens a door to violence and vengeance they don’t want to open.

If we do nothing, it will accelerate until we find ourselves in a culture like Mexico or El Salvador (before it was cleaned up)

I see a lot of people who are itching to get into a shooting war with their political opponents, and once the shooting starts, all anyone wants to do is figure out a way to make it stop.

But once that door is opened and stepped through (which the Left has done) There is no going back.

After reading this before clicking the “Post” button, I have to admit there are many over there who completely do understand what political assassination does to a society. Many of them on the Left who understand quite well, but are willing to walk through that door because they think it gives them a pathway to power.


17 posted on 09/16/2025 1:29:19 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Red Badger
"even the NYT"?

Even the far-right New York Times? Wow.

18 posted on 09/16/2025 1:32:00 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Just another reason to send your children to trade schools instead of the university.

NO. It's another reason for us to go in to the universities and drag these America-hating Communists out by their hair.

19 posted on 09/16/2025 1:34:52 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Red Badger

Is it just me, or do these marxists seem a tad emotional? Perhaps unbalanced?


20 posted on 09/16/2025 1:36:34 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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